Sell Your Property Fast in the East Midlands

• (i) As at June 2020, the average property price was £200,682 which was a 4.5% rise from the year before.
• (ii) The region is made up of the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire (except North and North East Lincolnshire), Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland.
• (iii) The most populous settlements in the region are Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Mansfield, Northampton and Nottingham. Other notable settlements include Boston, Chesterfield, Corby, Grantham, Hinckley, Kettering, Loughborough, Newark-on-Trent, Skegness, Wellingborough, and Worksop.
• (iv) In 2018, there were 5.1million residents in the East Midlands region with an average age of 40.8 years.
• (v) Population density of the East Midlands was 309 residents per square kilometre. The population grew by 13.3% since 2002 and population average age increased by 1.7 years in the same period.
• (vi) Based on the census, there were 2.39 residents per household in 2011. This means there are about 2.133 million dwellings in the region.

Brick is the material of choice in the East Midlands sourced from the layers of clay that lie beneath Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire. Moving west, you can also see more houses made of Marlstone, which is a golden brown or orange red ironstone sourced from the limestone belt running through the area.

The roofs of houses in the East Midlands are very varied. They can made with warm red pantiles compete with a selection of slates, from blue-grey to a pinkish purple. Thatch is quite common, and roofing of local Swithland stone – ‘slates’ cut from local granite seams – is to be found to the north of Leicester.